Dr David A. Kirsch

David A. Kirsch (@darchivist) is a Visiting Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford (2020) and Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on entrepreneurship and industry emergence and the intersection of problems of innovation, technological change and business failure. His most recent book, Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation (Stanford University Press, 2019), examines the causes of technology-based financial bubbles. He has also written about the early history of the electric vehicle (The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History (Rutgers University Press, 2000)) and has published numerous articles about history and entrepreneurship.